Lovington, NM 88244 Frost Dates
88244, near Lovington, NM: the frost window
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lovington in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lovington's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lovington against the rest of the dataset
About 230 days separate Lovington's last and first frost, putting it 10,349 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NM, it ranks 30 of 427.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 88244: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lovington can differ from the 88244 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Lovington's frost date answer different questions.